TOWN OF ULSTER, N.Y. -- The Town Board has set an April 4 public hearing for comments on granting the planned Mid Hudson Medical Group project an open development area designation covering a section of the former Miron property near the intersection of U.S. Routes 9W and 209.

The session is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Town Hall on Town Hall Road.

"They purchased a 10-acre parcel and a 5-acre parcel," Supervisor James Quigley said.

"The medical office building is going in the back corner on 5 acres that does not directly front on a public road," he said. "In order to have a legal subdivision in the town of Ulster you have to have access to a public road directly by road frontage or you have to have the application of the open development statute."

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Developer Kirchhoff Medical Properties last year received site plan approval to construct a four-story 83,440-square-foot facility, which will be occupied by Mid Hudson Medical Group as a tenant.

The developer has previously noted there are also tentative plans to add five more buildings to the property. Included would be a hotel; a 40,000-square-foot retail complex; a 14,000-square-foot retail complex; a 5,000-square-foot restaurant; and a 4,000-square-foot office.

State Department of Environmental Conservation information reports the site was used by Miron until 1978 for pre-cast concrete operations, although the company continued using the site for other activity. The report noted that seven buried and above-ground fuel storage tanks were removed in 2004 and that a 100-gallon petroleum spill also occurred at the site in 2009.

Kirchhoff Medical Properties on March 13 received approval from the Ulster County Industrial Development Agency for a 20-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes plan for property. Payments for town, school, and county taxes under the agreement will be $336,000 the first year and rise to $489,489 in the final year.

Mid Hudson Medical Group, whose doctors work in more than two dozen disciplines, is based in Dutchess County and has offices in many locations including Rhinebeck, Red Hook, Livingston, Kingston, the town of Ulster and Highland.

Kingston-based Pine Street Pediatric Associates in 2011 became part of the group and is expected to have an office in the new Ulster building while also maintaining its Midtown Kingston office.